Rusli Habibie is an Indonesian politician and former governor of

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. Habibie requested that if schoolteachers smoke on school grounds, then people should send him photos of the offender via

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so he can reassign them to schools in more remote areas of the province as punishment. Habibie's election was significant due to questions over his legal eligibility. He had previously been convicted of defamation of the province's former police chief and was still on probation at the time of the election. He is the nephew of the third

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B.J. Habibie Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (; 25 June 1936 – 11 September 2019) was an Indonesian politician, engineer and scientist who served as the third president of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999. Less than three months after his inauguration as the seventh ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Habibie, Rusli 1963 births Living people Indonesian Muslims Golkar politicians Governors of Gorontalo (province) Habibie family